Cant restore bookmarks

As my laptop was playing up, I did a manual back up on bookmarks, stored everything on my external hard drive, and deleted and reinstalled OSX. Now when i go to restore my bookmarks as directed by the Firefox help guide, the following message comes up:
Firefox
Unsupported file type
Please can someone give me some suggestions?
Many thanks,
Jim

There is a clear distinction between importing bookmarks and restoring bookmarks.
Restore replaces all of your bookmarks and is from a bookmark backup file which has a .json file extension.
Import adds the bookmarks to the bottom of your Bookmarks Menu and is from a bookmarks file (HTML format). the HTML file is what is used to copy bookmarks from another browser and is the format that was originally used by most browsers for their actually bookmarks.
The places.sqlite file is the actual bookmarks and history file in Firefox, to use it you would have to replace your existing file in your profile while Firefox is down,
and you would have had to of saved it originally to your backup device when Firefox was down.
So what is the filename of the backup and how did you create it, or copy it from your old system. Manually is not really enough of a description. Was Firefox down when you backed up the file.
Reference:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox
if the article is not currently available due to the server being down you can
read it from Google's cache.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fkb.mozillazine.org%2FSoftware_Update

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